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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 1, Sophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say changes the effects of women on young men?
(a) Love poetry.
(b) Existential despair.
(c) Violent rages.
(d) Hormonal flushes.

2. What allows adolescents to reach a developmental peak in adolescence?
(a) The attainment of sexual maturity.
(b) The lack of sexual desire.
(c) The beginnings of sexual desire.
(d) The fluidity of sexual identification.

3. What advice does Rousseau give to mothers?
(a) Care for the child's moral development above all.
(b) Care for children physically to allow them to perceive correctly.
(c) Mortify the body in order to focus the will on the world of the spirit.
(d) Confine the child's body in order to bring its soul into alignment with reason.

4. How does Rousseau say a woman's gentleness will affect men's power?
(a) With the effect of fertilizer on roots.
(b) With the effect of sun on leaves.
(c) With the effect of a stream on a stone.
(d) With the effect of fresh air on a basement.

5. How did the man to whom Rousseau was apprenticed treat Rousseau?
(a) Violently.
(b) Affectionately.
(c) Gently.
(d) Dispassionately.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does the priest use for the man who returns to his religion?

2. What did the priest feel after he left the church?

3. What did a career in the church offer the priest?

4. What is the consequence of too many slips in the child-rearing process?

5. What does Rousseau urge people to avoid?

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